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Schematic illustration of fruit fly chromosomes detailing the arrangement of genes for a variety of physical characteristics, taken from a set of slides produced to illustrate a lecture by Dr. Ludwig Arnold Schloesser, director of education for the SS Race and Settlement Office, on the foundations of the study of heredity. [Lecture 1, Card 24]

Photograph | Photograph Number: 95895

Schematic illustration of fruit fly chromosomes detailing the arrangement of genes for a variety of physical characteristics, taken from a set of slides produced to illustrate a lecture by Dr. Ludwig Arnold Schloesser, director of education for the SS Race and Settlement Office, on the foundations of the study of heredity. [Lecture 1, Card 24]

One slide published in a series of ten slide lectures on ethnology, heredity and the cultivation of race, edited by Dr. B. K. Schultz, director of racial education at the SS Race and Settlement Office, and published in 1934 by the J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, Munich.https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007057.

Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volume I and II of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.